41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
Bulkhead
"
"
The Bulkhead Door
tell
you something, and the Captain may
as well hear
it, too, for it concerns one of his officers."
I told them what I had seen and heard betweendecks.
The Captain was furious, but his fury had no refer
ence to my stolen treasure.
doors
"
open he ! raged,
and in this gale
!
By the great horn spoon, I d like to know who did that
and what for! As if there wasn t
enough to think of,
with a big storm thickening
forward."
He leaned over
and touched a bell. "I ll see what Mr. Fishley s got
to say about this. It s enough to make a preacher
curse.
Bulkhead doors open at all hours of the night
and in a sea like this!
The Doctor called me away. We went aft to the
stateroom, and there I rehearsed what I had learned.
He was deeply interested, though
I could see he was
nervous about the storm and the other troubles aboard
ship.
"We ll
go down in the morning and have a look at
"
that trunk," he said. Mr. Nason will go with us and
we ll have his authority for opening m it. I sorry now
that we didn t search it before and all the rest of their
baggage; but to tell you the plain truth, my boy, I
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